![Even during his presidential campaign, Erdogan signalled that he would be a proactive president, writes Kanat [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2d7e8c845daf4365b8f8a93852181d19_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Erdogan’s role in Turkey is crucial as civil wars and terrorist networks wreak havoc along its borders.
Kilic Kanat
Kilic Kanat is a professor of political science at Penn State Erie and the research director of Seta Foundation in Washington DC.
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